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What are some good things you have seen that are specific to remote companies to build up culture?

• zaphar 4y ago
  Emphasize written communication. Voice and Video are important but it's too easy to prioritize a Video Conference over written communication. The two mediums are complementary not fungible. If you needed a meeting you probable also need a published summary of the meeting. This doesn't need to me only technical either. Humorous and/or fun writing is also helpful to build culture. Provide appropriate forums for it. Moderate your informal written communication though. Ensure it's appropriate for the culture you are trying to maintain. In person events periodically at least once a year but more frequent if you can swing it. They are important to help people put faces to names and that helps you teams develop empathy for the other person.
  • rlawson 4y ago
    Thank you! I appreciate your summary!
• walljm 4y ago
  Try to build a virtual hallway/watercooler. We use slack for this, and worked very intentionally to encourage people to post what they were working on in their respective channels, and to reflect conversations in slack threads. This led to the team being able to observe what other people were working on, to occasionally "overhear" something that was relevant to them and hop in. We also encouraged people who jumped into video conferences to drop the meet in the slack thread so that other people, if it mattered, could hop in. Though not always appropriate (we have plenty of private ish meetings) that makes it easier for remote people to engage in the random happy accidents you get from a physical office.
  • rlawson 4y ago
    Thanks, good idea!